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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:58:21PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> On 24/04/13 12:16 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > All, |
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> > it has been suggested that gentoo's oldnet scripts be split out |
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> > into their own package separate from OpenRC so that they can be |
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> > developed independently. I am looking at doing this for OpenRC |
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> > 0.12, which I hope to release soon. |
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> > This means when you emerge or upgrade to openrc-0.12, the net.* |
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> > scripts will no longer be included. I am going to call the separate |
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> > package that includes these scripts gentoo-oldnet. |
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> > My plan is to write a newsitem when OpenRC 0.12 is released |
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> > telling users this and that they will have to emerge gentoo-oldnet |
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> > to get the gentoo networking scripts or turn on the newnet (maybe |
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> > I'll change this to net) use flag to get OpenRC's network scripts |
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> > installed and put ewarns in the ebuild if this use flag is turned |
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> > off. |
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> > I feel that a newsitem and ewarns in the OpenRC ebuild cover live |
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> > systems well. In a nutshell, users should pay attention to their |
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> > news items and ewarns. |
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> > On the other hand, some are suggesting that I should add a runtime |
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> > dependency to OpenRC so that it pulls in gentoo-oldnet. Since |
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> > OpenRC doesn't need gentoo-oldnet in order to run, I feel like this |
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> > would be abusing dependencies. |
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> > Does anyone have any thoughts? |
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> > William |
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> Current users should be able to do a -uDN and still have their |
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> existing systems work as-is. Whether you do this via a static |
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> dependency or one controlled by a use flag (and be sure use flag |
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> defaults would have oldnet installed by default) is up to you. |
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The issue is that OpenRC does not have any kind of dependency on |
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gentoo-oldnet at all. There will be a separate loopback script in OpenRC |
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so it is possible to run OpenRC on a system without the oldnet or |
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newnet scripts. In fact, this is a completely valid configuration. |
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OpenRC doesn't "link" to gentoo-oldnet in any way, so there is no |
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dependency. |
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The way I read the dev manual [1], a newsitem and postinst messages are |
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the way to go for somethinglike this. |
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William |
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[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html |
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